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Orange Amps Launches Signature #4 Jim Root Terror Head and Cab - Slipknot’s Jim Root launches his signature gear on the Orange Booth - at NAMM 2012 - Orange Amplification... More →
NAMM 2012: Orange Amps Launch Micro Terror & PPC108 cab - View Doug Doppler's demo video on Orange-on-You-Tube - Orange Amplification launches at Winter NAMM the Micro Terror – their smallest Terror ever! Building on the... More →
View the Official Dark Terror Demo Video on OrangeAmplifiers-on-YouTube - VIEW THE OFFICIAL DARK TERROR DEMO VIDEO - Clinician Doug Doppler demonstrates the Dark Terror by Orange... More →
Orange Amps Reissues the OR50H & launches OR15H Pics Only - view Doug Doppler's OR50H Orange-on-You-Tube demo video - Orange Amplification celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2008 with the issue of an extremely limited-edition... More →
PREMIER GUITAR AT NAMM 2012: CHECK OUT THE OR50, OR15, MICRO TERROR & SIGNATURE #4 JIM ROOT TERROR - Click on the link to view PREMIERGuitar at NAMM 2012 with Orange Amps' clinician, Doug Doppler, demonstrating... More →

!! DUAL TERROR, TERROR BASS & CRUSH PiX IN STORES IN NOVEMBER!!
08 October 2009
Click on the TWITTER link at the foot of this page for the latest news about new Orange products from MD, Damon Waller..

CHECK OUT THE NEW-LOOK ORANGE FORUM !!
07 September 2009
Click on the COMMUNITY header to view the new-style Forum. ORANGE welcomes your comments and suggestions to make the Forum even more user-friendly.... join in and have your say in the. IMPORTANT: NEW FORUM - READ ME thread at the top of page 1.

READ GUITAR WORLD'S REVIEW OF THE DUAL TERROR...
14 June 2009
Click on the DOWNLOADS header and then the PRESS REVIEWS & ARTICLES - VIEW ALL tab to download the GUITAR WORLD 'Soundcheck' DUAL TERROR review.

VIEW ORANGE'S LATEST PRODUCTS AT THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SHOW - LIMS 2009....
18 May 2009
Orange Amplification is exhibiting on STAND G10 at LIMS 2009 being held at London's ExCel centre in the Royal Victoria Dock, London EX16 1XL until Sunday June 14th.. Click on the NEWS header above for more details.

FORUM MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE... THE UPGRADE IS NOW COMPLETED
22 March 2009
The forum upgrade has now been completed. We are sorry for the extended downtime but hope that you will be happy with the improvements that have been made to the new forum!

ORANGE FORUM MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE....
10 February 2009
We are very aware that members have encountered problems recently when trying to access the Forum.. We are currently addressing this issue. Whilst we do so the Forum will be unavailable for short periods. . . We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you, however these measures will result in a vast improvement in our Forum facility.. .

Urgent - Tiny Terror Recall
27 November 2008
Important European Union - Safety Warning. . Orange Amplification - Tiny Terror Head. . We have become aware that some Tiny Terror Heads sold between October 2007 and August 2008 have a manufacturing defect.. . The defect is in the mains transformer which may be unsafe.. . If you own a Tiny Terror head please check the serial number on the rear of the amplifier..

ORANGE WORLD HQ - NEW ADDRESS
23 September 2008
Orange has moved to a much larger building in Borehamwood. As of MONDAY 29th SEPTEMBER our new address is : 108 RIPON WAY. BOREHAMWOOD. HERTFORDSHIRE. . WD6 2JA UK

ORANGE MERCHANDISE NOW ON SALE - CLICK ON MERCHANDISE
02 September 2008
Initially this applies to purchases from the UK and USA only, but other regions will be added in the future.. . . Other Orange items - in addition to T-Shirts and footswitches - will be added to the list soon.

141 TINY TERROR COMBOS STOLEN FROM ORANGE HQ. £3000 REWARD. CLICK ON 'NEWS' HEADER
18 August 2008
Thieves broke into Orange HQ at Borehamwood on Saturday night (16th August) and stole. 141 Tiny Terror combos with a total retail value of £62,000. . So far, 121 Tiny Terror combos have been legitimately shipped into the UK and . 2 pieces to Hungary, no others have been shipped anywhere in Europe.. . CLICK ON 'MORE...' ABOVE FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF. THE STOLEN ITEMS.. . . If you are offered a Tiny Terror combo or hear of somebody else who is, . please contact info@omec.com to help us and the police with investigations.. .. There will be a £3000 reward for information which results in the successful. conviction of the criminals who carried out this theft. .

NEW!!!! CLICK ON 'DOWNLOADS'.. CHECK OUT THE NEW 'PRESS REVIEWS & ARTICLES' SECTION
06 August 2008
. GUITARIST Magazine plugs into the OR50 - read the review. . . . MI PRO Magazine's cover story is all about ORANGE and includes an interview with CEO Cliff Cooper

YOUR CHANCE TO TRY AND BUY A LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY CUSTOM SHOP AMPLIFIER!
02 July 2008
Here are the four USA music stores and four UK dealers, all chosen via lottery, who are to stock one of the forty named 40th Anniversary Custom Shop amplifiers. The following girls' names were announced and allocated at a presentation made during the recent LIMS 08. . (Click on the NEWS header)

THE PSYCHEDELIC LOGO THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT ORANGE
03 June 2008
“I remember,” Orange’s founder and CEO, Cliff Cooper, points out some forty years on, “the shop front lettering taking forever to complete, but looking back it was worth the wait. It truly reflected the ‘Flower Power’ and ‘Psychedelic’ era.” . Orange’s New Compton Street shop-front logo – with its trendy artwork now re-created and enhanced for the first time since the early 1970s – is the commemorative logo for the company’s 40th anniversary year. Plus, it is the design featured on Orange’s official 40th Anniversary T-shirt now available as a limited edition. . If you wish to order a 40th Anniversary T-shirt contact info@omec.com for further details. Alternatively, you can buy it very soon using the Orange website’s shopping basket..

NEWS UPDATE: The 40th Anniversary Custom Shop Ltd Edition
13 May 2008
The 40th Anniversary Custom Shop Limited Edition has instantly found its voice in the world. . Orders are coming in fast, and all forty amplifiers - to be made in the first year with different one-off circuits - will soon have been reserved. . . Here's an exclusive update from the Orange Custom Shop about where some of the amps ordered are bound for or have already been shipped.. . “We have Sally and Edith that both went to Germany. Michelle went to Canada. Christina went to Spain. Judy is going to Holland. Lina and Mia are on their way to France. Betty is ready to go to Norway. . Right now we are working on Roberta which will be going to Italy once it’s completed. Our Italian distributor requested that name but many of the amps do not get named until we have played them and checked out their tonal character, playability and response!". .

LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY T-SHIRT NOW AVAILABLE !
18 April 2008
If you wish to order a 40th Anniversary T-shirt contact info@omec.com for further details. Alternatively, you can buy it very soon using the Orange website’s shopping basket.

INTRODUCING THE PPC412 40th ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION LOUDSPEAKER CABINET
09 April 2008
To further commemorate its 40th Anniversary, Orange reproduces its classic 1970s 4x12 speaker cabinet design.

NEWS UPDATE - THE AD5 COMBO - AVAILABLE IN JULY
08 April 2008
This is the third edition of this compact but powerful combo. Orange first introduced the AD5 in 1999 when a total run of 64 combos were hand built point-to-point and fitted with Alnico Eminence 10â€ speakers. Then 2003 saw the launch of the PCB version loaded with a Jensen P10R Alnico: the production run then was 60 combos..

INTRODUCING THE PPC 212 OB CABINET
08 April 2008
A new combo-sized cabinet from Orange with an open-backed (OB) design.

NEWS UPDATE: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OR50 IS NOW AVAILABLE
08 April 2008
Guitarist & Bass (April issue) is one of many guitar magazines and websites that reported back on NAMM 2008 and the excitement and interest generated at the show by the launch of the Orange 40th Anniversary series - the Custom Shop Limited Edition and the OR50.

INTRODUCING THE TINY TERROR COMBO
08 April 2008
Available in early summer, reviewers agree that here is a 1 x 12 (Celestion G12 H30) combo with a new and different harmonic quality to the Tiny Terror head.

ORANGE AT THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SHOW (LIMS)
07 April 2008
Orange will be exhibiting at the first ever London International Music Show to be held from June 12th to 15th at London's Excel centre.

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